Henry Johnson (Louisiana)

Henry Johnson (14 September 1783-4 September 1864) was a US Senator from Louisiana from 12 January 1818 to 27 May 1824 (succeeding William C.C. Claiborne and preceding Charles Dominique Joseph Bouligny) and from 12 February 1844 to 4 March 1849 (succeeding Alexander Porter and preceding Pierre Soule), Governor of Louisiana from 13 December 1824 to 15 December 1828 (succeeding Henry S. Thibodaux and preceding Pierre Derbigny), and a member of the US House of Representatives (D-LA 1) from 1 December 1834 to 3 March 1839 (interrupting Edward Douglass White Sr.'s two terms). He was a Democratic-Republican, a National Republican, and a Whig.

Biography
Henry Johnson was born in Virginia in 1783, and he worked as a lawyer before moving to Louisiana in 1809. In 1811, he became clerk of St. Mary Parish, and he went on to serve in the US Senate from 1818 to 1824, as Governor from 1824 to 1828, in the US House of Representatives from 1834 to 1839, and in the Senate again from 1844 to 1849. He was a supporter of John Quincy Adams and joined his National Republican Party, while he moved the state capitol to Donaldsonville as a compromise between the Anglos (who wanted to move the capital north) and the Louisiana Creoles (who wanted the capital kept in the French parts of the state), and founded the Louisiana State Bank. He died in 1864.